Denham Town

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title: "Denham Town" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["neighbourhoods-in-kingston,-jamaica", "populated-places-in-saint-andrew-parish,-jamaica"] topic_path: "general/neighbourhoods-in-kingston-jamaica" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denham_Town" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Denham Town
settlement_type	Residential neighbourhood
dot_x
pushpin_map	Jamaica
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Jamaica
subdivision_type1	Parish
subdivision_name1	St Andrew
subdivision_type2	City
subdivision_name2	Kingston
named_for	Edward Brandis Denham
timezone1	EST
utc_offset1	-5
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Amenities

There is a police station, and three schools: Denham Town Primary, St. Alban's Primary (the oldest of the three. It is 127 years old,) and Denham Town High.

References

References

1. Road map of Jamaica, Kingston town plan, Esso, 1966.
2. [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070418/lead/lead1.html West Kingston fury - Four killed as police-gunmen clash in Tivoli and Denham Town] {{Webarchive. link. (20 November 2008 , Daraine Luton, Jamaica Gleaner, 2007-04-18.)
3. [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071030/lead/lead1.html Bloody battle - Three dead, two injured after shoot-out in west Kingston] {{Webarchive. link. (21 June 2008 , Gareth Manning, Jamaica Gleaner, 2007-10-30.)
4. [http://caribbean.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0043-31442007000600007&lng=en&nrm=iso Pre-adolescent gunshot injuries: anatomy of a Jamaican problem], SE Dundas - C Abel- ND Duncan - C Pinnock-Ramsaran - DM Sawh, West Indian Medical Journal, Volume 56 Number 6, 2007-12, ISSN 0043-3144.
5. "Denham Town". The Jamaica Constabulary Force.

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